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“May Madness” was hosted by Sarah Heinz House and Carnegie Mellon University where twenty-four teams competed in robotics challenges.

“Robotics translate extremely well into what comes after high school,” teacher and robotics faculty sponsor Mike Dischner said. “It’s about problem solving, science, math and research.”

Pittsburgh area sophomore Dalton Shaffer said the critical thinking skills that connect …

We came across an article about a great initiative that’s happening in Africa. A program called AFRON, or the African Robotics Network, is “aiming to mobilize a community of institutions and individuals working on robotics-related areas, strengthening communication and collaboration among them.”

You can read more about AFRON by clicking on the following link:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/african-robotics-network

Robot Virtual Worlds (RVW) has announced a new release scheduled for this Friday, April 13, 2012!

Among the modifications in this release are new utility tables, new challenges, and new robots!  Check out the blog release here!

Not familiar with Robot Virtual Worlds?
RVW allows students to use their ROBOTC code on virtual robots in a simulated environment. Students will be able to write and test code in …

NASATalk is hosting a unique presentation series featuring NXT next week and the Computer Science Student Network (CS2N) is presenting on Tuesday!

The discussion will talk about resources and activities for classrooms.

It’s free, it’s online – and everyone is invited (including you).

 Admission: Free
 Date: Tuesday, April 10th
 Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm EST

Please visit the CS2N blog to learn more.

We all know that robots help us by performing tasks that are dangerous, repetitious, and sometimes tedious.

Scientists from Cambridge University explains how scientific research doesn’t always involve the use of equipment bought from scientific catalogs.
Actually a lot of the things we use in the lab are household items, things we picked up at the local home good store, and so our robots just fit in with that mindset
Take a look at the video below to see how robots aid Scientific …

May Madness will be held at the Sarah Heinz House, on Saturday May, 5, 2012. We have released the middle school competitions for this year’s May Madness. Get more info by clicking on this article.

PITTSBURGH, PA – January 31, 2012: The Computer Science Student Network (CS2N) www.cs2n.org,  is hosting a nationwide animation competition that allows students of all ages to do just that.  The theme, “Save the World in 60 Seconds”, invites participants to create a one minute (or less) animation about how they would reduce, recycle, reuse, restore, and/or replenish in order to make the world a better place.  There will be multiple winners from all age levels and every state. Each …

The Scores and Rankings for the Pittsburgh Regional FIRST LEGO League has been released. Click on the article for the link!

Engineering teams have been given a set of topographical maps and a sophisticated robotic system to solve a set of robotic challenges using state of the art software, telecommunications, and multi-sensor feedback. Teams are using current methodologies demonstrated by the Mars Lander missions where NASA was able to remotely control its Pathfinder robot by sending snippets of code to control the robot enabling NASA to explore the Martian surface.

The Robotics Academy has just released the Summer On-site Training schedule for 2012. Click on the article for the available sessions!